THR 327 - Cartographies of Performance & Politics

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirements HU, DE, and W.
This course critically analyzes the connections among diverse theories, artistic proposals, plays, performances, and activist projects throughout the Americas. From Bertolt Brecht to Augusto Boal, and from theatre groups’ engagement with social struggles to current tactical activism and street protests, embodied theatricality can be conceived as a tool for individual creativity and collective projects to struggle for social justice. How are artists from the Americas reconfiguring Western-based understandings of arts and politics, and to what extent transnational mobility generates a new map of the Americas?